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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
Book Image

The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By: Emiliano Paternostro

Overview of this book

Pro Tools has long been an industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for audio professionals, but it can often be overwhelming for new and experienced users alike. The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook acts as a reference guide to the software and breaks down each stage of a project into manageable phases. From planning a session, editing a sequence, performing a mix to printing the final masters, you can approach this book either sequentially or peruse the self-contained recipes. You’ll come to grips with workflows for music production, motion picture, and spoken word production, helping you gain expertise in the area of your choice. You'll learn aspects of music mixing like side chain processing to keep instruments from overshadowing each other and conforming for motion picture. The author’s expertise with Pro Tools will help you discover and incorporate different techniques into your workflows. You’ll also learn to build consistent and replicable workflows and templates by understanding what happens behind the scenes in Pro Tools. With this cookbook, you’ll be able to focus on the creative aspects of your audio production and not get mired by the technical hurdles. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle even the most complex features of Pro Tools to deliver immaculate results for your clients.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Mixing a spoken word project

Now that we have a session set up with the tracks needed for most spoken word projects, let’s move on to mixing the project. Retaining the mindset that we should create a more “hands-off” approach to the mix, we’re going to apply more aggressive dynamics control to the voice tracks and a master “catch-all” to the Dialogue Submix. We’ll also apply some sidechain compression to the Background Submix so that it will automatically duck the music or other parts when someone talks.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a blank Pro Tools session with multiple tracks routed appropriately for a spoken word project (check the previous recipe for instructions on how to do so).

This recipe uses the YouLean Loudness meter to measure LUFS. You will need it installed to follow through the last steps of this recipe. Check out Chapter 6, recipe Understanding LUFS, for details.

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